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This study deals with football hooliganism in Sweden from a historical perspective. The purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of football hooliganism change and development in Sweden between the 1990s and 2012 and to compare my informers’ tales with previous research on the subject. In the survey, I want to explain what lies behind hooliganism development and how it has influenced the Swedish football culture. In the study i have used a qualitative approach trough interviews to collect empirical data to study and to answer my questions. I have implemented and set out evidence from four different interviews. To get interesting responses to the survey, I wanted to interview people who moved in hooligan circles as seen hooliganism developments closely and with own eyes. The choice of informants fell on two ordinary football fans, a football hooligan and a supporter police. By this selection I got responses from three different perspectives, a hooligan, a supporter police and two supporters. In the survey I also used the Robert Connells hegemonic masculinity theory. The theory has helped me to understand and connect many of the elements in the core of hooliganism emergence.
The survey shows that there has been a very big change on the Swedish football hooliganism. Above all the emergence of football firms, which is the biggest change, large parts of hooliganism has also become more organized. My study also highlights that hooliganism has become increasingly visible in recent years. Hooliganism is often found in the stadiums in the form of pyrotechnics, vandalism, fights and riots, which gives a negative impact on football culture. But the development and creation of football firms has also meant that large parts of hooliganism has moved outside the stadiums and often take place far away from the public. In this way football hooliganism therefore also become a major social problem that is causing personal and property damage for large sums of money.